Horace Darwin’s Notebook
This image is taken from a notebook kept by Horace Darwin to record his ideas for all manner of mechanical devices, including a self-adjusting spanner, […]
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Judicial Combat
These drawings were made by John Stanford in 1841 while on a research trip to the libraries of Germany. They are copies taken from a […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – a sixteenth-century Book of Hours?
At first glance, it looks like a French Book of Hours made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century: it is written in humanistic […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – Spirit Drawings of Anna Mary Howitt
The latter half of the nineteenth century saw a rise in interest in Spiritualism, the belief that the spirits of the dead can, and indeed […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – the Illustrations of James McBryde
James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – The Maxim Airplane
In 1894, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American born engineer and inventor of, amongst other things, the first machine gun, completed the construction of a ‘flying […]
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The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for April. It can be viewed on their website here.
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The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for March. It can be found on their webpage.
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Strange goings-on and mysterious occurrences have been reported as taking place in the drawing room of Leckhampton House in the university town of Cambridge. Loud rappings […]
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New catalogues published on Janus
Over the last five years the Manuscripts department has been running a retrospective cataloguing project with the aim of creating a comprehensive on-line catalogue for […]
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